As many as 48 people are missing since October when the anti-government protests started in Baghdad and the southern provinces, said a member of the commission for human rights on Monday (December 16)

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday (December 16) urged Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi to take steps to prevent bases housing US troops from being shelled, a statement from the premier

President Barham Salih has asked Speaker of the Council of Representatives Mohammed al-Halbusi to formally determine the largest parliamentary bloc as part of the constitutional process for determinin

Armed men have shot dead an Iraqi activist who had been participating in anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraqi media reported.

The director of education in Sinjar has been missing for several days, a source told NRT on Sunday (December 15).

The federal Ministry of Interior said on Sunday (December 15) that the security forces had arrested five suspects in the grisly death of a teenager in Baghdad last week.

Two members of Iraqi federal police were killed in an Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Kirkuk province on Sunday (December 15), NRT reporter said.

Council of Representatives lawmaker Rebwar Karim said on Saturday (December 14) that there are 10,500 people in Iraq with a Master’s or doctoral degree who are unemployed.

Most of the Iraqi parties have agreed to nominate Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani as a candidate for prime minister, a source said on Saturday (December 14).

Iraqi Shia cleric and political leader Moqtada al-Sadr has decided to close institutions associated with his political movement for a year, Sadr’s office said on Friday (December 13).

The UN Security Council has expressed its “grave concern” at human rights violations committed against Iraqis participating in the ongoing anti-government demonstrations, including the killing, maimin

Amnesty International condemned on Friday (December 13) the deliberate killings and abductions of civil society activists in Iraq and called on the government to take action to prevent violations of h

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday (December 13) condemned recent killings and kidnappings of protesters, urging the state to assert control over the widespread use of wea

A suicide bomber blew himself up killing at least seven fighters from an Iraqi paramilitary group near the city of Samarra north of Baghdad on Thursday (December 12), the military said in a statement.

Following a grisly incident in Baghdad, protesters have condemned what they characterized as an attempt to discredit peaceful demonstrations against the government.

Two protest organizers went missing on Wednesday in Baghdad, just a day after an activist was killed in the Iraqi capital.

Two Katyusha rockets landed near the “outside perimeter” of Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday (December 11), a statement from the military said.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has released an updated report on human rights violations during the protests in central and southern Iraq, which found a pattern of excessive fo

A prominent activist was killed in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday night (December 10) as he left the protests to go home, Iraqi media has reported.

An Iraqi lawmaker said on Tuesday (December 10) that the federal budget deficit for 2020 is estimated to be 48 trillion Iraqi dinars ($40.3 billion).